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Right now it sounds a whole lot more like Blade of Darkness 2 than Arx Fatalis 2.

Where the real action is taking place this year: Air Canada Centre, Toronto! (Yes, I was bored with too much time on my hands )

Joss Stone - Sleep like a child

Overrated: New, skinny Lindsay Lohan Underrated: Old, beautiful Lindsay Lohan

Now now, this is not the time or the place to bring up your sorry love life.

By the way, what do you think about this season's Tampa Bay Lightning? Ok, they managed to hold on to Lecavalier and the nameless mass of players, but they lost Khabibulin and it looks like they will have a hard time keeping Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards. Suddenly the Bolts doesn't look like a Cup winner anymore.. They're my girlfriend's favourite team so I can't say I'm too upset..

Overrated: shoot'em up sequences in 'RPG's' Underrated: Games that are longer than 10-15 hours

Overrated: Sidney Crosby (I'm going to have to eat these words..) Underrated: Alexander Ovechkin

Overrated: Bioware Underrated: NHL

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/18/news_6131497.html Agh. That doesn't sound RPG'ish in ANY way. 12 single player levels, 40 weapons? WTF?! I want Arx Fatalis 2 (using Source)!

Maybe I'm jaded from seeing Brodeur dominate every series he's in? I used to think Belfour was good until he arrived in Toronto.

Haha! :D That one made me laugh out loud

Oh well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree then. For the record, I don't agree with Don Cherry 99% of the time either. By the way, Toronto (as a team) seems to have this thing for making average goaltenders look like they're holding the team together single-handedly. I remember the same was said of Felix Potvin and Curtis Joseph too, and both pretty much bombed once they were traded from Toronto. Edit: Haha, sorry for sounding like a parrot! I didn't see your "agree to disagree" until I had already written my post

I have a VERY hard time believing Feargus would object to a few beautifully painted ladies behinds.

Antialiasing has kind of made the hunt for more pixels obsolete. 800x600+ and you're fine, as long as you have a few FSAA to even things out.

And I still say Belfour was average against Ottawa and below average against Philadelphia. I don't know if you saw the games (you sure did find the game statistics alright), but if you imagine someone lying unconscious in goal wearing goalie equipment, and then imagine Hossa firing 44 pucks in his head, then the unconscious person would be awarded with 44 saves in the post game statistics. That's almost how it was (slight exaggeration ). But he was slightly better against Ottawa. Against Philadelphia he made some great saves, a lot of ordinary saves (when people just shoot the puck at you) and had a bunch of fumbled shots, even from the mid zone. A team that trusts its goalie know they can make a mistake every once in a while and expect the goalie to bail them out. When they have that trust, they can play their own game and concentrate on creating offence (or whatever their game plan is). If, on the other hand, the goalie is unreliable, the team will not be able to play their ordinary game because everyone's afraid to make that mistake that will cost them a goal. The first thing they lose is their offence and even then their defence isn't getting any better (as offence for an offensive player is his best defence) and most often they end up losing the game. By the way, save percentage is also misleading (especially in the Ottawa series) since getting a shutout skews the numbers (Belfour got two).

John Denver - Annie's Song

It irks me that he only got a 20 game suspension, but I guess you have to take into account the amount of time that has passed since the incident and his reinstatement. I must say I was pissed when they first announced that he was being reinstated, but I don't feel as annoyed now that I've thought about it for a bit.

I don't agree with this either. Every NHL player always says that the regular season and the playoffs are like two different sports. I think it was in XXXX that the Leafs met Ottawa five times in the regular season, and the Senators won every one of those meetings. Then came playoff time and Ottawa and Toronto met in the first round. Toronto won that series 4-0. That was awesome, by the way Edit: XXXX means I have no clue. My first guess was way off.

He was average against Ottawa (in my opinion) and below average against Philadelphia. I remember Belfour having a couple of shut-outs in the Ottawa series, but he was also below .900 several times. Yes, he stopped 40+ shots one time, but he still lost the goalie match-up against Lalime in that game. Also, a great goalie is consistent and Belfour isn't. I still remember game four of the last Flyers-Leafs series. Belfour looked like he was drunk, let in 6 (!) goals on 18 shots, before he left the game. Toronto only managed to fire off 11 shots the entire game, but a team that can't trust its goaltender has a tendency to lose its offence first. The Flyers managed 29 shots that game and it wasn't like the Leafs defence was especially bad that night, Belfour was. His total percentage for the Flyers-Leafs series was 87%.

Slightly off topic: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/15/news_6131085.html Marty Turco for the US audience and Mats Sundin for the Canadian and European version

So.. what you all wearing?

Toronto needs wingers. But I'd rather see someone else than Anson or Leclair.. Just that every big name winger out there seems to have been taken already. Except for Sel

Oohh, I found my cowboy.

The redline is disappearing, and that's a good thing. In Sweden (we removed it several years ago) it has lead to a more open play and some very exciting plays. It takes a lot less time for a team to switch from defence to offence without the redline rule. I do look forward to seeing which goalies will be good with the new, smaller equipment. I have a feeling Brodeur will still be the best there is, but other than that I have no clue. Henrik Lundquist (new goalie for the Rangers) has already played for a couple of years with smaller than average equipment, so I don't think he will have too much trouble adjusting. But then again, he has yet to play his first game in the NHL.. Edit: I saw that Leclair signed with Pittsburgh Penguins. I'm glad Toronto didn't get him. Toronto doesn't have enough hospital space for Leclair, Allison and Lindros on the same team..